STRANGE DEVELOPMENT
Strange Development is a performance about relationships, society, personas and their shadow. Our fellows are diving into the roots of relationships and feelings, into the root of an emotion, the root of a gesture or a single word. It’s about the space behind and beyond the words.
BY TANA MANEVA – concept and direction
With: Tana Maneva, Maria Rostotsky, Elise Sjöberg, Simon Edman, Max Lapitsky, David Mörner, Lina Lundberg och Aya Glaser
Composer, live elektronic - Rikard Borggård
Video animation - Lena Rammi
Light design - Anders "Shorty" Larsson
Set design and costumes - Youlian Tabakov och Tana Maneva
Assistant director - Alice Ilmenska
CONCEALED PARTY
A TEATER GILJOTIN PRODUCTION
”Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
Rene Magritte
Concealed Party dives down into the subconsciousness, a process starting from point zero, intuitive, abstract and non rational. From chaos order is created.
Concealed Party opens a door between two worlds; the real physical world and the inner, fathomless dreamworld. The interpretation of
the Japanese dance form Butoh fascinates. Everything can happen, the human beings’ light and darkness take a form infront of our eyes.
EQUILIBRIUM
A TEATER GILJOTIN PRODUCTION
An installation-performance which took place 25 meters underground, in a shutdown nuclear reactor in the heart of Stockholm. Experimental music and butoh-inspired body language were integrated in a set of art installation in the mysterious urban cathedral-like space. The project were a co-production between The Royal Academy of Technology, Sahajo Production Group, Sanna Sevika Hansson design and Teater Giljotin. Directed by Tana Maneva. Music by Rikard Borggård. Stage design by Sanna Sevika Hansson. Light design by Anders Shorty Larsson.
EMERGENCY EXIT
A TEATER GILJOTIN PRODUCTION
PRESS ABOUT TEATER GILJOTINS EMERGENCY EXIT: "A white stage with a table, a chair and stacks of paper... Rikard Borggårds music helps to build the space with spatial sound images of a dangerous outside, electronic crackling and eerie music.
In this room, circumscribed by stretched ropes, Tana Maneva move like a female zombie from control to chaos. Her butoh inspired performance demonstrates points of contact between the Japanese butoh dance and popular cultural references, from the zombie film genre to the artist Lady Gaga."
Nummer, Culture Magazine